We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“That was unthinkable, he said; all men believe in God, even those who reject Him. Of this he was absolutely sure; if… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Even the most gifted person needs someone to initiate him. The one that life puts in your path one day, that person… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“At a certain degree of lucid intoxication, lying late at night between two prostitutes and drained of all desire, hope ceases to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“If I ask myself how to judge that this question is more urgent than that, I reply that one judges by the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“When one has once had the good luck to love intensely, life is spent in trying to recapture that ardor and that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“For the plague-stricken their peace of mind is more important than a human life. Decent folks must be allowed to sleep easy… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Thus I progressed on the surface of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In a moment, when I throw myself down among the absinthe plants to bring their scent into my body, I shall know,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Person describes himself throughout life. To know oneself perfectly means to die.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share
Being is good, but getting rich is better… If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share
“Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave… — Albert Camus Copy Share
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive. — Albert Camus Copy Share
“Then he asked me if I wasn’t interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives, that in any… — Albert Camus Copy Share
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't… — Albert Camus Copy Share
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings. — Albert Camus Copy Share
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. — Albert Camus Copy Share
“We love people not because for good they did for us, but for good we did for them.” — Albert Camus Copy Share
You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the… — Albert Camus Copy Share
